/lit/ - Literature

>>14936037
Lebs aren't Arab.
>No, The Lebanese have no Arab ancestry
>A recent paper showed that modern Lebanese are genetically very close to Ancient Canaanites. Further, in spite of claims in history books (e.g. Salibi), Lebanon experienced hardly any gene flow from the Arabian Peninsula. The presence of J1e haplogroup is less than 3%, a tenth of what is found in Syrians and Jordanians, and a fifth of what is found in Palestinians (the overall J1 is about half). This applies to all Lebanese ethnoreligious groups.
https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-genetics/something-nordic-supremacists-will-not-like-44d99e8a4188

I fucking love Taleb, bros.

>>14840455
>because all the other sites noticed that allowing the conversations lets the racist side convince people.
Good. That means a larger supply of IQtards to BTFO.

>>14838312
Watson is an imbécile.

>>14744916
No.
>>14744920
You clearly haven't.

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>>14498432
Charles Murray is a BS vendor and IQ is pseudoscientific nonsense. Taleb already BTFO the quack Charles Murray.
>No measure that fails 80–95% of the time should be part of “science” (nor should psychology — owing to its sinister track record — be part of science (rather scientism), but that’s another discussion).
The quote above isn't even the worst part. Taleb literally rips apart the bell curve in a single graph; he shows that the correlation between socio-economic status and IQ is effectively zero — and with this Murray's thesis goes down the drain. This also makes Murray's thesis highly immoral because it's not right to trap people in imaginary boxes, such as IQ.
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
>b-but muh studies show the correlation between IQ and wealth
Incorrect. Firstly, Taleb has access to the raw data used by those studies, and he has confirmed that there is no correlation. Secondly, IYI psychologists do not know anything about statistics — they seem to think it's about interpreting noise. With an r2 of zero, IQ correlates with socioeconomic status by exactly 0%.
>b-but muh blacks score lower
While true, it's entirely meaningless and unscientific; it is meaningless because IQ is meaningless and unscientific — it tells us exactly nothing.
>b-but muh country IQs
Those are completely BS. The fraudsters getting the data — ie Lynn — don't even go to the countries to get the data, they fabricate numbers, use unscientific measurements such as IQ, and make assumptions to get their numbers. I'd like to also point out that they always give Middle Eastern and Near Eastern countries an IQ in the 80s, but Lebanese, and a few other, diaspora have higher incomes in the US than diaspora with supposedly higher IQs, like the Chinese and Europeans; this doesn't sound right when IQ is supposed to correlate with wealth — but both you and I know the reason now.

The world is too unpredictable; develop robustness to negative black swans and learn to harness positive black swans.

>>14440098
No, read Taleb.

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>>14420487
Cringe. You're reading books that can be summarized in a page and books that will be forgotten In a couple years. You guys are unlindy.

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>No measure that fails 80–95% of the time should be part of “science” (nor should psychology — owing to its sinister track record — be part of science (rather scientism), but that’s another discussion).
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
>>14420455
Imbecile. Taleb destroyed both Harris and Peterson.

>>14300990
My man Taleb is very Phoenician in appearance.

You have read Incerto, right Anon?

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Reminder that Dr. Taleb has debunked IQ; and if there are biological/cognitive differences between races, IQ is not the way to measure them.
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

>>14242529
(I've posted this five times today, but here we go again)

Friendly reminder that Taleb BTFO IQ. IQ is pseudoscientific nonsense that only tells you how well you perform on IQ tests.
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

>>14239511
>[Who] are some [people] that midwits hate but which are actually patrician and Lindy?

You have read Incerto, right Anon?

While reading it, keep in mind that Taleb destroyed Kant - and everyone who followed in Kant's footsteps.

>>14192918
>It is just that atheism has failed and it will be replaced.
Just as my boy Taleb predicted

>Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

IQ was refuted
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39 by Taleb

My cousin recently took the NassimPill. How do I cure him? What are the best arguments against this imbecility?

>"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love."

What did he meme by this?

Antifragile. Look at this smug son of a bitch.